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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
DEATH OF CAPTAIN EADS.

The Noted Engineer Passes Away While
on a Visit to to the Bahama Islands In
Search of HeaIth-A Sketch of His Busy
Career
NEW York, March ia dispatch from
Nassau, N. P, via Key West, Fla, an.
nounces the death there on the sth inst of
Captain James b. Eads, of pneumonia
Mrs. Terney, an old friend of Mrs Eads,
said at the Eads house last night
that no direct information of Cap
tain Eads' death had been re-
ceived by her, nor by any of
his friends in this city. W. ]. Harner, who
has been associated in business with Cap
tain Eads for many years, said that he re.
caived on Wednesday letter from Mrs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

IHE Forty-ninth Congress afforded
striking illustration of the constant
increase in the volume of legislation
demanding the attention of Congress
which has been going on for the last
three or four Congresses, More bills
were introduced in both houses, more
committee reports made, more bills
passed, more became laws and more
were vetoed diam ever hefore.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
The Trade Dollars.

WASHINGTON, March u.-At the treas
ury and treasures of the United States
trade dollars not mutilated, defaced OF
otherwise deficient in value will be re-
deemed. Payment in standard dollars OF
fractional silver coin will be made upon
the deposits. Trade dollars defaced or
mutilated will be purchased in as bullion
in sums of three dollars and upward
They will be returned to the depositors and
will not be redeemed or exchanged by any
of the sub-treasuries
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

ANY German who comes to this
country leaving property behind him
must return if notified by the military
authorities, or his property will be con-
iiscated. Notices to return and serve
IN the army are now being received in
the United States by the hundreds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

AT recent election for school d.
rector in Pittsburgh Henry Barlo,A
was % candidate. When the ballots
were printed the letter II Of Henry was
partly broken off and only made. Il
short stroke, and the ballots read
"enry Barlow" Forty of these ballots
were cast and not counted These
would have elected Barlow, who will
contest the election.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

OFFICIAL reports that show the tide of
immigration into the United States is
again rising. The total number of ar
rivals during january, 1887, was 49,
SO2, against $40 in january, 1886.
For the seven months ended january
81, 1887, 207092 immigrants arrived,
against 1905 in the same period OF
1886, an increase of 60,313, or forty
one per cent. The arrivals from the
United Kingdom seem to have been the
largest, Germany ranking second; Rus
STA, Scandinavia and Italy came next.
The larger number of immigrants (66,
945) came from Great Britain.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

9. r. EAGAN, an electrician of Co
Iumbus, o., asks the world to believe
that he has invented an instrument
which will enable vessels at sea to com
municate with each other or with the
land by the human voice, without re-
gard to distance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

The Ames Sword Company of Chi
copeo, Mass, has discontinued the
manufacture of sword blades and will
hereafter import them from Germany.
This, it is said, practically ends the
manufacture of sword blades in the
United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
HelnIessIH Rankrnnt.

ST. JOHN, N. B., March 15.-The New
Brunswick industries are said to have been
paralyzed by the failure of the Maritime
Bank, whose S1,OOO,OO0 of deposits have
melted away, and hundreds of people are
financially ruined. The bank and the
great firms which it has been carrying are
hopelesSlY bankrupt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

The first indispensable requisite to
life is the sun. Were the sun to be ex-
tinguished, the green parts of the
plants would no longer fulfill their
functions. They would even dis
appear, as is the case if q plant grows
in darkness. Hence there would be
no formation Of new vegetable matter.
The store of food for animals would
soon be exhausted, and they would die.
Were the heat or the light of the sun to
fail, nothing living could exist on the
face of the earth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

TIE 2lst of June has been decided
up3n as the date for the national cele-
brltion of the Queens jubilee The
day will be deG5Nred a holiday, and the
Queen will attend a state service to be
held in Westminster Abbey.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
Heavy Failures.

CINCINNATI, March 15.-The failure Of
George s. Crawford, a lumberman, for
$4,000, caused the collapse of the Boyd
Manufacturing Company, which ives $780,
OO0 and of S. W. & S. g. Boyd, with large
liabilities. Creditors not preferred are
likely to fare badly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

New AMI terrible explosives seem to
be multiplying. The French discovery
of melNnite was followed by German
discovery of an explosive said to be
even more destructive than melanite,
and now close upon the heels of the
German MISUNDERSTANDING
compound comes Russia with the an
nouncement that she has new ex-
plosive which possesses fifteen times
greater destructive power than gun
powder and produces no smoke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

DIR. RmGLER, of Pesth, is said to
have made a very curious experiment
in photography, and one that to many
people will appear almost incredible.
He has photographed bullet after it
had been fired from a rifle, and while it
was proceeding with a velocity OF 44O
meters-more than quarter of mile
"a second. The experiment was sue
cessful, y perfect reproduction of the
bullet being the result A horse at full
gallop, swallow in its flight and even
a flash OF lightning have succumbed to
the photographers art, but his last
triumph is still more marvellous.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

GOVERNOR PATTIsoN, of Pennsvl-
vania, lost son while he was living in
the Executive mansion at Harrisburg,
and the same sad misfortune has al
ready befallen Governor Beaver.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

The banking capital of Canada is
SOL, 258,7 1876. The returns for January
show an increase of $5,o00,00O in de-
posts by the people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
HEATED discussions are going on in
tire papers about car heating

AN ordinary election in New York
City requires an expenditure Of $291,-
900, and a Presidential campaign takes
100000 more.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

1t is found that when paraffine is
thoroughly mixed with linseed oil, cast
into small blocks and cooled, it may be
used to make any fabric, as cloth felt
and leather, waterproof, by rubbing it
with such a block and ironing after
ward to equalize the distribution of the
material in the pores. If too much is
put or, the material may be made to
be only impervious to water, but not
to air, the small, greasy particles SIM
ply repelling water.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
A Veteran of 1912 Passes Away.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Jabez Turner, q
veteran of the war of 1912, died here yes
serday, aged ninety years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
Affairs in Ireland.

LONDON, March IA sensation has
been caused by the publication of General
Sir Redvers Buffers evidence before
the Land Commission. 1t appears that
General Butler testified that what law
there was in Counties Kerry, Clare and
Cork was on the side of the rich, and he ex-
pressed the opinion that it would be seri-
Gus matter, with their grievances unre-
dressed, to attempt to suppress by force
the tenants right to openly associate for
the protection of their interests. ma
jority of the tenants, he said, struggled
to pay their rents, and, where they
could, did pay; but in great many cases
the rents were too high and such as the
tenants could not pay. He said there
would never be peace in Ireland until there
had been established a court having strong
coercive powers over bad landlords and
protective powers over poor tenants.
The Pail Mall Gazette declares that the
facts attested by General Butler come like
flash of vivid lightning, revealing the
naked horrors of organized injustice in
Ireland. 1t says: 'No crime which the
moonlighters or dynamiters can commit
will be comparable to the criminality of
giving another days grace to the foul fab
rlc of legalized wrong erected on Irish
sofia fabric which the Tories now seek
to buttress by further misdeeds"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18

AN Eastern firm is buying all the
rat pelts it can in the West,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01
GENERAL BEAVERS SHOW.
A Sleepy BOOtblack Who Thought TheI
was Mistake Somewhere.

a Sleepy BOOtbIack Who Thought There
a Mistake Somewhere.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
Some funny things happned at the
hotels. heard a cOmical story recently
about General Beaver that has never been
printed, the actors In which were a gov
ernor-elect and hotel porter In Harris
burg. The ancient cOlored man who
used to polish shoes and lug about heavy
trunks and do odd Jobs about the hotel
was named Stuart 'tBOx'' Stuart as he
was known to the guests. One night
General Beaver stopped at the LOchiel,
and as Is customary, put out in the hall
way, on retiring, his one shoe to be pol
ished. 1t Is understood that the general
wears but one shoe, owing to a rebel bull
let at Ream's station. on August "a,
1865, depriVing him Of q leg. When
''BOx" collected the shoes in thu hall
way In the early morning he was half
asleep ane he didn't notice that he got
but one shoe at a certain door. He
went down into his bOudOir and put a
silver shine on all the shoes, carefully
sorting them out in pairs, until he reach
ed the generals solitary shoe. Then he
was noAplussed and thoroughly awoake.
He couldn't for the life of him remember
what he had done with the other shoe,
and he thought he had lost it.
He made a vigorous hunt through the
halls and searched high and low, but
without avail, and at last he returned to
the cellar and carefully hid the one shoe
away, hoping to find the mate before
there was a call for it. About z 80 in
the morning there was a vigorous ring
from the generals room, and boy went
up. When he got back ne said 1926
wants his shoes" He was directed TO
interview Box which he did. oDeed,
I amt got no gemman's Shoes said
''Box," serene in the fact that he had
but one shoe. Then there was another
racket, and the bell-bOy, chambermaids
and pretty nearly everybody else started
on a hunt for General Beavers shoe, but
they failed to get it, Finally Will Corn
man sought Box and informed him
that General Beaver had placed his one
shoe outside of his door to be polished,
and it had not yet turned up-had
'tBox' seen it? A ray of light dawned
on "BOx." He tried to explain that he
saw something like one shoe somewhere,
and he would hunt for it. A minute
later he scoOted up the back stairway
carrying the missing shoe, which he
handed in to the general AMI explained
the way and wherefore OF the delay,
apologizing ProfuseIy. The general
laughed good natu eddy and did not take
it amiss that he had late breakfast that
morning.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01

Good Housekeeping.

One of our little girls has been trou-
bled with earache since her babyhood.
No sores have gathered, but q cold or
exposure to a strong wind Is almost GER
tain to cause her acute suffering with
earache. After trying nearly every
thing recommended, I have settled on
this application rs giving surest and
quickest relief. It Is a flannel bag stuff
fed with hops and wrung from hot vine
gar. lay the bag over the child's ear,
as hot as she viii bear it, cover the
whole side of the face with dry flannel and
change the hop bag as often as it be-
comes cool. The warm steam filling the
child's ear, soon relieves the pail.
Stufing the ear with the ''heart of
roasted onion" tricklings OF molasses,
Wads of peppered cotton, and Jumps of
mutton tallOw, has never yet, In my ex-
perience, eased earRche, and such irritat-
ing messes crowded or poured into the
delicate labyrinth of the ear may do
mischief.
Another child is a victim of legache.
Inherited, possibly, for well do We re-
member what we suffered with its tor
lures in our own childhood. Heat and
moisture gave US relief, and, following
in our mothers footsteps We have routed
night after night from our warm quart
ers, In the dead Of the winter, 20 kindle
fires and fill frosty kettles from water
pals thickly crusted with ice, that we
might get the writhing pedal extremities
Of our little heir into a tub of hot water
as quickly as possible. But lately we
have learned all this work and exposure
IS needless. We simply wiring a towel
from sailed water-a bowl of it stand
ing in our sleeping room r-ady for such
an emergency-wrap the limb IN it from
aDkle to knee, without taking the child
from his bed, and then swathe with dry
f1annels, thick and warm, tucking the
blankets about him little closer and re-
lief is sure.
A croupy cough can often be Ioosened
and prevented by swathing the throat
with dry, warm hannels; a thick pack of
them to sweat the throat and chest often
helps SO speedily that it is not neees-
sary to sicken the child with ipecae or
to wake the hodse kindling fires and
preparing hot packs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01
sIrrTNa ZOE rs RUsT.
Colonel Pat Gilmore Chats About a Rather
. Trying Experience,
st. Louis Globe Democrat

Colonel Pat Gilmore Chats About Rather
. Trying Experience,
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The most powerful experience I ever
went through was when I accepted the
invitation of a large chronological es-
tablishment in New York to have my
bust taken at their expense. I went to
the st1dio at the hour fixed and was to
be met there by a wel-known sculptor,
who had cOurteously undertaken to do
the modelling himself. By some unfor-
tunate mischance he failed to put in an
appearance, Two apprentices were Wig
orOusly stirring the liquid plaster of
Paris, or whatever Villainous compound
Is used for the purpose. After about
half an hours waiting it was decided to
proceed in the great mans absence, and
1 was invited to disrobe. A much be-
plastered white sheet, supposed to rep
resent a Roman tOga, was wrapped
round my neck and shoulders tightly,
and my face and hair were literally
creased to prevent the plaster sticking
to the flesh. Pieces Of paper were stuff
ed in my mouth, nose and ears, and
was told to shut my eyes. No sooner
menced pouring the liquid on my head.
One poured while the other pressed the
rapidly hardening compound so as to
fill every recess and get a cast Of every
feature. They poured a great deal too
much on, and soon my head was encased
III a mask as hard as iron The heat
was insuferable. I could not move my
head, for the awful weight threatened to
dislOcate my neck if did; my eyes
seemed being pressed into my brain, and
the paper circlets not proving adequate
for their purpose, L began to feel the
first symptoms of suffocation. I could
not C Ill out, and believed myself to be
dying. But my troubles had barely
commenced. The apprentices had not
fixed the centerboard, or slit, properly,
and when they mercifully decided to re-
lease me they found the cast would not
come in half as it usually does. In a
successful operation the two halves are
joined together after removal, aud a per-
feet reproduction Of the face and head
easily produced. But in my case both
dividing board and grease had Keen
overlooked, and the only course left was
to smash the mask of. Mallet and CHS
81 were used, producing an effect like
conclusion Of the brain. Finally my
face was freed, and was able to breathe
and make a few remarks to the boys on
their carelessness. Then it transpired
that they had omitted to grease behind
my ears, and the plaster adhered TO the
skin Ike glue. To remove the former
the latter had to be torn away, and
when at last I got away I was a mass Of
blood and sores. After two weeks med
zeal attention I got about right, but the
memory is fresh still. 1 don't know
whether the boys were wholly or only
partially idiotic, but when I sit for my
bust again I'll borrow some one else's
head for the occasion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01

vas remarkable Tor size and pisinnezs-
Polk was small ana Enatlractige In per
son and manners. Taylor was a large
man Of rough exterior, but a pleasant,
genial person. Fillmore had q dignifed
appearance without elegance, but gen
eel and agreeable. He was large man
OF good address. Pierce was q slight,
handsome man, OF delightful manners
and winning voice. Ben PerIey Poore in
his recent "Reminiscences, says that he
was the most popular man personally
that ever occupied the presidential chair.
No other president ever won the affec-
tons Of the people at Washington so
completely as did he. His successor,
Mr.. Buchanan, was eOurtly In bearing,
and was a fne-lookng man even In old
age. He lad penohRut for white neck
ties, which gave him a clerical look.
Lincoln, though tail, gaunt and home
", nevertheless had a pleasant face when
enaged In conversation. johnson was
one Of the old-time presidents in the
matter Of personal appearance. He in
yRriably wore black brOadcloth, and was
scrupulOusly neat IN dress. He was
heavy built, but not stout, somewhat I'M
der six feet, and had head Of beautiful
outline only handsome feature.
Grant had light sandy whiskers and dark
hair, and was of medium size and weight.
He was the youngest Of TIE presidents.
Hayes and Garfield looked alike-both
large an6 tall, Of fOrid compilations and
good looking. Garfield was the finer
looking Of the two.
General Arthur is the only president
who wore side whiskers. He was a we'll
preserved man of elegant appearance. In
the matter of dress he ranked all his
predecessors.
President Cleveland is the first of the
| presidents who has worn a mOustache
only. He is large and strong, but not
good looking, and is fast growing paid
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01
Another rhing a woman Can't do.

Boston Record.
Coming dogn School street in the
rain one day last week, a wise self
respecting looking gentleman OF middle
age, carrying a serious serge umbrella,
met hurrying high-sehOol girl with a
small assertiVe silk umbrella In her
hand. According to all ordinary rules
OF umbrella-caFrying, it looked as though
there would be collision when the two
umbrellas pointed at opposing angles to
each other should Try to pass. But the
gentleman saw the girl Just IN time, and,
with superior air of experience, lifted
mis- umbrella high up in the air. That
would have saved things; but the girl
had evidently been trained in the very
unusual feminine accomplishment OF
umbrella lodging, and she shot heI
small shade upward at the same critical
instant The collision came, the UNI
brellas betangled Themselves the girl
blushed and stammered end begged par
don; and the gentleman said, as he
Strengthened out the frame of her um-
brella and politely returned it to her
'sGirls should not try to learn Greek OF
to sharpen lead pencils or carry unbrel.
las. It can't be done"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01


On the return Of the Fifteenth corps
from the relief Of Knoxville, after having
marched all the way from Msmphis to
Chattanooga says q writer ia the Grand
Army Sentinel, a soldier Of the Eighth
hlissouE-one Of SheEman's bummsrs,
an Irishman who had bee e rOusabOut
on the IeVees Of st. Louis-eame strag-
Cling along behind the column on a
cold, dseary day-for that section: his
hapsaek slung On one shoulder, his
blanket over the Otker; across his breast,
and tied at his left hip, q greasy but
empty kaversack, pants worn and rent
IN many places, others seWed with a
cord; no peak to his cap, his musket at
reverse arms" altogether presenting
the appearance OF general disgust and
decentralization. Of from the road he
was attracted by a headquarters tent,
and sentinel In a neat and comfortable
uniform, whom he approached and &C
cOsted, when the following dialogue en-
sued:
81 say, Sentinel, could yO1 tell me
where my regiment isl"
'What regiment do you belong TOP
Eighth Missouri, sure"
s'What division ?"
Morgan, II. (L.) Smit.s av course"
''What brigadeY"
"Phwat brigade? Faith, an don't
you know it's Giles Smit's-the secund
brigade Of MOrgan's Illinois division ?'i
"What corps is it inf"
s.Phwat coor is itP An, thin, ye
blackguard, doesn't Everybody know It's
the Fifteenth cOOr?"
allow could tell what corps you be-
lOnged to when you had no corps
badger"
'tNoa badge, is it-coor badge? Now,
thin, phwat's cOor badge?
ado you see that crescent on my part
ner's hat? We'll, that is the badge Of his
corps-the Eleventh; and this star OF
my cap is the badge Of my corPs-ths
Twelfth"
"Ho, hol I see now. THINKS the
lights yez Potomac byes have to show
home dark nights. Yez takes the moor
and shtars along wild yez."
Laughing at the witty remark, Ia,
sentinel responded:
''Wen, what's the badge OF you
corps?"
"D'ye see thatg'' Then g moment
pause. ''FOrty rounds in me cartridg,
box and tWinty in me pocket. That
the badge Of Logan's Fifteenth cOor. do
We mind that! that KEN all the way from
Vicksburg to help yez Potomac feller
foight at ChartanOogy."
The incident having been related t,
General Logan the same evening by al
officer who overheard it, the cartridg,
box, bearing the legend. 'Forty Rounds
o. S." vas at once adopted by Genera
Logan as the corps badge, and genera
order to that effect issued next day.